MADRID The new mayor, Manuela Carmena, whose candidacy was promoted by the new party “anti” we, the subway was taken today to go to City Hall and start her first day in that position, then taking Saturday after closing a deal with the Socialists. Once in office, he had to accept the first resignation of his new government: the Councillor for Culture, Guillermo Zapata, questioned because he wrote anti-Semitic messages years ago
However, Zapata, screenwriter television. 36, will remain in the municipal group of Madrid, headed by judge of 71 years.
Orders for waiver Zapata multiplied on social networks after reflotaran Semitic messages he had posted on Twitter as one of 2011 that said “How meterías five million Jews in 600? In the ashtray”.
In his appearance before the media after his resignation, Zapata explained that it is not anti-Semitic and always He has rejected violence and moved that it has contacted affected by his “jokes” and sent to the most affected letters
The Zapata himself had said earlier today did not rule resign “if it is the right thing for these people stop suffering” and to cease “the unleashed media storm “as played El Pais.
” Some jokes I’ve done in my Timeline [archive of tweets] are producing anger. I’m sorry if it is. The Holocaust I find deplorable and terrible ” , wrote on Twitter before closing your account.
Last night, Carmena told a television interview that “the black humor can not be cruel” and that he would consider moving to another position Zapata.
The leader of the Socialist Party (PSOE), whose support was key to Madrid now form a government in the Spanish- capital Pedro Sanchez, claimed today Carmena to “cease immediately” Zapata on the grounds that their tweets are “miserable” and “unworthy of someone who wants to hold the Department of Culture of an open and tolerant city like Madrid.”
For his part, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo, said today in reference to these messages that “while one did not hear such a thing” against the Jewish people and said the government condemns with “absolute clarity without any nuance.”
The Israeli ambassador Spain, Alon Bar, today’s “anti” branded Podemos party, which is part of the candidacy of Madrid now, and admitted that “some comments and notes” municipal governments led by coalitions linked to this party, “can be a basis of concern “for the Israelis and for the Spaniards.
The spokesman of the ruling Popular Party (PP, center-right) in the town hall, Esperanza Aguirre, today announced that his group will ask for an extraordinary plenary session” on tolerance and against hate speech in the city of Madrid “.
The PP won the municipal elections last May in the capital, to get 21 councilors, compared with 20 Now Madrid, however, the support of the PSOE to this group, snatched the mayorship to PP, after 24 years in government.
agencies ANSA and EFE .
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